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AUSTRALIAN BIOGRAPHY a Series That Profiles Some of the Most Extraordinary Australians of Our Time STUDY GUIDE AUSTRALIAN BIOGRAPHY A series that profiles some of the most extraordinary Australians of our time Thomas Keneally 1935– W riter This program is an episode of Australian Biography Series 9 produced under the National Interest Program of Film Australia. This well-established series profiles some of the most extraordinary Australians of our time. Many have had a major impact on the nation’s cultural, political and social life. All are remarkable and inspiring people who have reached a stage in their lives where they can look back and reflect. Through revealing in-depth interviews, they share their stories— of beginnings and challenges, landmarks and turning points. In so doing, they provide us with an invaluable archival record and a unique perspective on the roads we, as a country, have travelled. Australian Biography: Thomas Keneally Director/Producer Rod Freedman Executive Producer Mark Hamlyn Duration 26 minutes Year 2003 Study guide prepared by Kate Raynor © NFSA Also in Series 9: Betty Churcher, Marjorie Jackson-Nelson, Bill Mollison, Bernard Smith, Charles ‘Bud’ Tingwell, Joan Winch A FILM AUSTRALIA NATIONAL INTEREST PROGRAM For more information about Film Australia’s programs, contact: National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Sales and Distribution | PO Box 397 Pyrmont NSW 2009 T +61 2 8202 0144 | F +61 2 8202 0101 E: [email protected] | www.nfsa.gov.au AUSTRALIAN BIOGRAPHY: THOMAS KENEALLY 2 SYNOPSIS Thomas Keneally: Garrulous to a Fault… Thomas Keneally is one of Australia’s most popular and prolific Choose∑ six adjectives to describe Thomas Keneally. writers, having published more than 30 novels, dramas, screenplays ∑ List∑ three qualities you like about him. and books of non-fiction. He is also one of its most distinguished. He has twice received the Miles Franklin Award and was shortlisted for ∑ Make∑ a list of three questions you would ask Tom if you had the the Booker Prize three times before winning for Schindler’s Ark, opportunity to interview him. later made into an Academy Award winning film. His novel The ∑ There∑ is a fundamental sense in which Tom’s self-image is Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith is an Australian classic. conflicted: ‘I wavered between being a wimp and a muscular Born in 1935 into an Irish Catholic family, Tom spent his early years Australian. I was also a brat’. He admits that, above all, he wanted to in country towns of northern NSW before moving to the Sydney be good at sport. He wanted to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, suburb of Homebush. He wanted desperately to be good at sport but, but he also wanted to be a champion rugby player. For Tom, as an asthmatic child, spent much of his time on the sidelines read- ‘Sport is the hero system with which I grew up, and I never got ing. As a young man, he studied for the priesthood for six years but beyond it’. Does this passion for sport surprise you in a writer? left just before ordination, suffering a nervous collapse. From 1960, Is sport important to you? Describe one of your sporting heroes. he worked as a schoolteacher, coached football and studied law part What is the social and cultural function of a hero? What do our time. His first novel was published in 1964, yet only after his third heroes reveal about us? Who are some of your heroes? novel Bring Larks and Heroes did he see writing as a full-time career. Thomas∑ Keneally has been known as Michael, Mick, Thomas and Married with two children, Tom is also widely known as the Tom. What do all these names suggest about his identity? Do you founding chairman of the Australian Republican Movement and as have a nickname? How did it come about? an obsessive rugby league fan whose conversation is punctuated To∑ m describes one of his earliest memories: riding on his with a rich and memorable chuckle. grandfather’s locomotive. What is your earliest memory? Describing himself as a free-thinking hedonist, garrulous to a fault, in T∑ om speaks of ‘that Jack Lang Labor tradition in me’. Who was this interview Tom talks about his childhood, the church, sex and the Jack Lang? seminary, and what it means for him to be a writer. Keneally∑ has been a member of the Australia Council Literature CURRICULUM LINKS Board, a President of the National Book Council and a Chairperson of the Australian Society of Authors. He was also involved in This program will have interest and relevance for teachers and establishing the Australian Republican Movement. What do you students at middle to senior secondary and tertiary levels. Curriculum think these roles would have involved? What does his involvement links include English, English Literature, Media Studies, Personal in these various bodies suggest about his character? Development, Australian Studies and Australian History. On Family and School ACTIVITIES AND DISCUSSION POINTS Much∑ of Tom’s humour is self-deprecating. He speaks of being a The Film: Story of a Life premature baby and how his father, not a wealthy man, insisted Did∑ you know anything about Thomas Keneally prior to watching on a private hospital for his delivery because of rumours that babies this film? If so, has watching this film changed your opinion of him were being switched in the public hospitals. He laughs that perhaps in any way? it would have been better for his family if he had been swapped. Imagine you were exchanged with another baby at birth. Describe Does∑ your impression of Tom shift over the course of the film? the family you grew up with and your ‘real’ family. What factor Does∑ this film leave you with any questions about Tom? do you think plays a more important role in the development of character: nature or nurture? The∑ filmmakers intercut shots of Tom responding to questions posed by interviewer, Robin Hughes, with occasional photos and To∑ m’s parents both left school after sixth grade. His mother felt archival footage. Choose four family photos from different periods deprived of further education and valued reading. She used to say a of your life and use them to construct a series of autobiographical child with a book is never bored. Did either of your parents read to snapshots. Who is in each photo? Who took the photo? Where were you as a child? What are your memories of this? Do you like to read you? What was the occasion? What was the mood? Does the photo now? What sort of books do you enjoy? correspond with your memory of the time? What has happened to T∑ om describes his father as a very loving man, an affectionate the other people (if any) pictured in the photo? How have you father and a splendid footballer, with a disposition towards fieriness. changed since then? Do you like the photo? Why/why not? He says that temperamentally they were very different. How would To∑ m shares a number of anecdotes from his life. Choose one of his you describe your father? Are you more like your mother or your stories and explain what it tells us about him. Imagine you could tell father? In what ways? just one story from your childhood to convey a sense of you and your How∑ does Tom describe himself and all the other children who had family. Write this story and then at the end, note what you think it to endure their fathers’ absences during World War Two? reveals about you. To∑ m enjoyed primary school but lists a number of problems: with ink, concepts, wheezing and nasal discharge—‘There’s nothing that can evoke the contempt of a smart five-year-old girl with neat homework like a continually running nose—I was a mucous licker!’ What are your memories of primary school? AUSTRALIAN BIOGRAPHY: THOMAS KENEALLY 3 At∑ high school, Tom had ‘a strange and interesting set of friends’, writing is basically an obsessive, solitary activity—‘the more you do it, a mix of jocks and intellectuals. What group do you belong to? the more slightly mad you get’. Why might writing make you go How easy is it to move between groups? ‘slightly mad’? How might children impact on this process? T∑ om says his friendship with a blind boy during high school was The Writer: ‘The beginning of a novel is a not entirely altruistic: ‘Not all is altruism, even for Mother Teresa’. belief that the world really needs this book’ What does he mean? What other forces motivated him? During∑ his childhood, Tom’s asthma necessitated spending time The Pale Priest: ‘As agnostic as one might on the sidelines, and gave him the opportunity to read. He became be, they’re listening you know!’ hooked on ‘the tricks of narrators’. He says, ‘Reading is the grand liberator’. What can reading liberate you from? Give an account of ∑ To∑ m’s earliest memories of Catholicism are of the necessity of a book that has special meaning for you. attending mass and nuns telling stories about going to hell. Have you been brought up in any church? What are your memories of this? T∑ om says that writers look back and usually see themselves as the children on the outer. He remembers himself as a ‘weird, eccentric To∑ m says that when he entered the seminary at the age of 16, kid’. ‘It’s the children on the side of the playground who become the he was ‘unrealistically idealistic’. Explain what he means by this. dangerous writers. The children in the centre do constructive things’. Priests∑ can be expected to adhere to vows of poverty, chastity Do you think Tom really thinks writing is not constructive? Why do and obedience.
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